Tay Keith Quotes

Right from the first time we went to America in 1968, Led Zeppelin was a word-of-mouth thing. You can't really compare it to how it is today.

I mean it's funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but it's not competitive like an election, it's the Olympics, it's not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

Why would heavy metal ever go away?

Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.

People don't understand real musicians anymore. Jack White is great - he's the real thing - but he isn't having hits.

I remember, after the New Year's Eve 1991 show, somebody running onto the bus and saying Nirvana had just hit No. 1. I remember thinking, 'Wow; it's on now.' It changed something. We had something to prove - that our band was as good as I thought it was.

Pop music doesn't challenge anything.

Nowadays, people have an open mind vis-a-vis new artists like Meghan Trainor, Nico & Vinz, Hozier - there are hits coming out of everywhere.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

Ricky Martin just kind of opened a big door, but it's always been around. Latin artists have always been there, but some of them were never doing it in the U.S.

For a lot of fans from the early days, they probably had issues they were A-ha fans, because it probably wasn't 'cool.'

Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands.

We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a difference between a few thousand people and 20,000.

My kind of music is probably not going to shoot to the top, but I'm fine with that. There's still enough rock'n'roll soldiers.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

It's easier to be the art school band than to be the Beatles.

Punjabis are the only people keeping non-film music alive in a big way.

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

I grew up in Southern California. I played in rock bands out here, and I've been around pop music my whole life. I've been around all music my entire life.

I'm not a DJ, I'm not a scenester.